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First Listen: Mount Eerie, 'A Crow Looked At Me'

Stream Phil Elverum's heartbreaking tribute to his wife, Geneviève Castrée, who died last year from pancreatic cancer.
Mount Eerie's new album,<em> A Crow Looked At Me</em>, comes out March 24.

At the end of 2014, Geneviève Castrée and I were writing back and forth to each other about domestic life, baking bread, and the forthcoming records by both her own project () and and that of her husband Phil Elverum:'s. I had been immersed in the music of Mount Eerie and Elverum's previous band The Microphones for quite some time, and his music felt like "second nature, like I've already heard it somehow in a dream," I wrote to her. His music discovers the unknown as if it's always been, just as grand and mysterious and

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